Radio Lab - On Memory and Forgetting.

Look, I've already railed on and on about how good Radio Lab is and you still haven't begun listening to it on your own.

I know why.

Because Podcasting is a scary hobby to break into. There are a lot of shows to choose from. There's a hidden suspicion that this is going to cost you something. And until you click on the "Podcasts" button of your Itunes and actually look around, it's an unexplored resource.

So, I'm going to make it even easier.

I was just tooling around on the Radio Lab website, downloading mp3's of old shows that I've never heard and I saw that you can now embed audio from the shows on your own website.

If I can't get you to go listen to Radio Lab, I can put some of it here for you to listen to, on your own.

Without anymore introduction, I present the opening sequence of the June 8, 2007 show, titled "On Memory and Forgetting". Here's the text description from their website about what you're about to hear...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat
What is a memory? Science writer Jonah Lehrer tells us is it’s a physical thing in the brain… not some ephemeral flash. It’s a concrete thing made of matter. And NYU neuroscientist Joe LeDoux, who studies fear memories in rats, tells us how with a one shock, one tone, and one drug injection, you can bust up this piece of matter, and prevent a rat from every making a memory. LeDoux’s research goes sci-fi, when he and his colleague Karim Nader start trying to erase memories. And Nader applies this research to humans suffering from PTSD.

Here's the clip.

Turn up the volume.
Turn off your phone.
Expand your mind.
Enrich your world.

Enjoy.